Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

The military discipline of the new army was very strict. If it was said that they were soldiers that had been trained by the Ryukyu, then when the topic involved sensitive military aspects, this conversation would immediately stop. Even if they were drunk, the new army still had a bottom line.

Of course, with the harsh military discipline of the new army, it was impossible for them to make the soldiers drink until they were completely drunk.

Unfortunately, the Prussian soldiers became the breakthrough point for many intelligence personnel. It was not because these soldiers were not disciplined, but because of the awkwardness of their status.

Their main mission in Asia was to help the Chinese bring the warship back, and to conduct a series of scouts on the way, so that these inexperienced Chinese Army would quickly familiarize themselves with the operation of the warship.

Although they had been ordered to accompany the Chinese soldiers in battle and had to obey the orders of the Chinese Captain, there was a big flaw in that military order. Was the authorization to continue fighting until the Ryukyu, or until they returned home?

This was one of Bismark's negligence, and the result was such an awkward situation. When the Zhiyuan Warship arrived at Ryukyu's military harbor, all the Prussian soldier and Xiang Ying and the rest of the people did not know whether the earliest subordinate order was counted.

In the end, he had no choice but to ask Xiao Letian to send a telegram to Prussia to negotiate on this matter. However, in the days while he was waiting for the call back, the Prussian soldier had become a very free VIP.

It was probably this kind of carefree state that made the Prussian guy let his guard down. After countless drinking, many information about the Zhiyuan Warship was leaked.

Every bit of hazy information about the Zhiyuan Warship was extremely valuable. What did it mean to be pressurized by strong wind? What are the maximum range and accurate range of the 210-caliber main cannon? How much coal is consumed every day? What was the capacity of a ammunition depot?

Prussian could not give the exact number of this information, but when they were drunk they would more or less give the spies a certain amount of information. These blurry numbers of information made outsiders look confused, but it would be hard to give them to Da Niu's engineers.

The shipbuilding masters that were nurtured in the Royal Navy Academy could easily use these blurry numbers to deduce all the statistics of the Zhiyuan Warship s. They were even able to estimate the size and strength of the dragon bone.

Not only did the intelligence focus on the battleship's military data, but many of the politicians' concerns were leaked out by the hapless Prussian children.

How much gold and treasure did the French of the Dakar lose? How much war commissions did the Chile offer the Zhiyuan Warship? This information is too precious to politicians.

The financial world of the nineteenth century absolutely believed in the primacy of gold. The pound and the franc, including the dollar, were strictly fixed prices for gold. Inflation was hard to hear in those days, but contrarian deflation was common.

Why do many people call the dollar the dollar? Why did the francs introduced by Napoleon III become called Gold franc s? It's because the paper money is tightly locked with gold.

In the eyes of the Europeans, silver was just an industrial precious metal that could be used as a support for gold. However, most of the time, this metal was used as a means to acquire wealth in Asia.

The large amount of silver mines dug out from the North America and the South America were simply refined and forged before they flowed to Asia. Before the Opium War, the silver ores were left in the mainland in exchange for ships of silk, porcelain, tea, rhubarb and even pig mane.

After the Opium War, the game of "Blind Eyes" had deepened. Not only did they use silver to gather wealth, but they also used silver to exchange for a large amount of Chinese gold.

After being controlled by the silver standard system for such a long time, the citizens and politicians had a special infatuation with silver. In the Asian's eyes, silver was money, and money was silver.

They had no idea that the Europeans had discovered countless high-grade silver mines around the world, and that the prices of silver had begun to fall in an avalanche. It was just that the news had been sealed off.

When Xiao Letian conducted the silver trade in the Pacific Ocean, the British did not care at all, because they knew very well how many silver ores they had in their colonies. If they were to say it out loud, it would scare Xiao Letian to death.

However, the British definitely would not allow anyone to meddle with their gold trade. If Xiao Letian showed a very strong interest in gold, this was something that the City of London would not allow.

"The Zhiyuan Warship actually robbed five tons of gold from the Dakar? This number must have water, but no matter how much water there is, this is a very bad sign... "Send a report to the country immediately, and at the same time, send a report to the ambassador of Beijing!"

"Do you guys think that the Chile has also provided Xiao Letian with gold? "I feel that the possibility is very high, the momentum is very bad, we have to teach him a lesson …"

The British spies were the first to find out about the gold. It was also because of their wanton spread of information that caused this war between the Chinese and Russian to suddenly shine with a golden light.

Near the borders of Great Qing, tens of thick submarine cables suddenly became busy, as countless top-secret signals flew towards the east, south, west.

Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore... Even the subcontinent of India and the Lions of the Sri Lanka, and almost all the British intelligence agencies in Asia, had received the gold message.

"My God! The Chinese robbed France of five tons of gold? "Quickly report this to the supervisor …"

"Are the Chile's side using gold and silver ores to pay for the employment expenses of the Zhiyuan Warship? "Hurry up and check how much you've given us …"

All British intelligence networks were mobilized, and for some political reasons the information was shared with the French, as was soon received in Vietnam and by the French governors of the Bay of Bengal.

Everyone was flabbergasted and could not believe their eyes. Following that, countless Frenchmen roared, "Revenge!" He had to take revenge! Despicable bandits and thieves, that is the gold of our France … It is a whole eight tons, yet eight tons of gold was sold to Xiao Letian for nothing, I definitely will not allow it … "

The facts had proven that the intelligence agencies were exaggerating sometimes. In the end, the amount of gold taken by the Zhiyuan Warship had changed from one person to three tons. Who else could it be, for it to be only five or eight tons. This was completely unprovable.

But one thing was certain: the gold had ignited the greed of the Western colonists, and the money robbery was under way.

It was not only this few rounds of gold. With the help of a few people, the rumors of Xiao Letian's secret treasury in the Pacific Ocean once again spread like wildfire.

They said that Xiao Letian had robbed the Manchu's secret treasury hidden outside the pass. Those gold that the Qing Dynasty had plundered for two hundred years, those wealth that should have been used as the last resort for the Manchu, had all become Xiao Letian's personal wealth.

Xiao Letian was just like the legendary Caribbean pirate king, who hid countless of his wealth on the islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Ever since ancient times, gold had always been dazzling. The entire Asia had been thrown into chaos by this ton of gold.